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TIL Japan's aging demographic problem is so bad the country sells more adult diapers than baby ones

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78m6x TIL Earth’s North and South Magnetic Poles Flip in a Geomagnetic Reversal Every Few Hundred Thousand Years
jlxv TIL that there is a runway in Somaliland, a country that is not even recognised internationally, which is so long NASA rented it for 40 million dollars a year just in case the space shuttle could not make it back to America.
6Ega8 TIL originally built as only a hunting lodge for King Francois I, Chateau de Chambord contains 440 rooms and 365 fireplaces. It is so large that the Loire was rumored to be diverted to make room.
l7YMB TIL During Prohibition in the United States, the U.S. government literally poisoned alcohol. When people continued to consume alcohol despite its banning, law officials got frustrated and decided to try a different kind of deterrent—death
oBj9A TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.